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TR will not disappear. But their value to the market was "data + interface to said data" and that value prop is quickly eroding to "just the data". You can be a huge, profitable da…

I learned of the lid angle sensor due to my MBP draining its battery. Whenever I flew across the country I'd always end up with a dead battery. Originally thought it was some proce…

That which might be of additional interest... look at how the top 10 of the S&P 500 has changed over the decades[1]. At any point in time the world thinks that those top 10 are uns…

Likely to steer clear of regulatory scrutiny or approval processes (specifically FTC and DOJ).

> Tesla vehicles have a fatal crash rate of 5.6 per billion miles driven, according to the study; > So, why are Teslas — and many other ostensibly safe cars on the list — involved …

Would be neat if instead an open-ended challenge ("here's some data, do something cool") the MTA instead shared a list of hypothetical or real problems to solve and provided data t…

I ask this question - always - but it goes like this. Q1: Rate yourself 1-10 on X language? Their answer is Y (and almost always 7). Q2: What's the difference between a Y and a Y+1…

Happen to be in France and can confirm (along with many others on Reddit) that cell service is indeed out. Interestingly it’s not one carrier but seems to be all the major ones (VZ…

I used LangChain early on in it's life. People crap on their documentation but at least at that point in time I had no problem with it. I like reading source code so I'd find mysel…

It’s got a term - “garden leave” and yeah it was prevalent in finance. I say “was” because I think some states are changing laws wrt/ non-competes and this calling this practice in…

Does this change a lot for many people? This doesn't mean you can scurry off a just build a competing product/service to your existing employer. You probably also have NDA and/or I…

20 years ago nobody thought there'd be a another US automaker beyond the big three (Ford, GM, Chrysler)... yet today here we are with Tesla and a list of others. Are there any othe…

I'm confused. The articles talks about the data not being available for download and cites another article[0] which talks about it being available only for a fee. However if you go…

TIL APL...neat! Found this for others who want to play along. https://tryapl.org/ (Note: took a while but the special characters for producing lists, etc... are from "virtual keys"…

More specifically... "probate issues". If you die with assets... you assets are going to be transferred to beneficiaries in accordance with a will if you have one. It's a lengthy l…

I grew up having pinball machines in our house (my dad bought and fixed them as a hobby, sold or gifted them to friends). I have my childhood Black Knight pinball with me now. Love…

Live near Boston. Natural gas is the predominant energy source for heat and electricity[0]. The NG pipeline that feeds this geography is too small[1] so LNG is shipped in[2]. Sadly…

Matt Levine (of MoneyStuff/BBG) covered the events[1] of the oddness that led up to the eventual layoffs. His perspective seems to convey that the layoffs were not a "AI can replac…

I must say this is indeed a fascinating threat vector. "We have seen that you can embed viruses in the cartridges. Through the cartridge, [the virus can] go to the printer, [and th…

Agree that the range degradation is unsettling. My model 3 started with 320 and now its about 7-8% lower after 2 years. However, this is my daily driving car for which I put on ave…

Similar experience here with a ~2021 Model 3 in Massachusetts. Maintenance has been 0 thus far. Electric rates are high, I think.. compared to most of the US. I'm at $0.27/kwh look…

All the focus is on Boeing (as it is a household name) and they have final signoff... but Spirit Aerosystems (the fuselage manufacturer, not the airline) is also a big, public comp…

Honestly she loves all her subjects in school. I’d say the “engineering tendency” that she picked up from her mom and I (both eng) is the desire the go deep on learning something. …